BlackBerry Files Patent-Infringement Suit Against Nokia (bloombergquint.com)

An anonymous reader writes: BlackBerry has filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against Nokia, demanding royalties on the Finnish company's mobile network products that use an industrywide technology standard. Nokia's products including its Flexi Multiradio base stations, radio network controllers and Liquid Radio software are using technology covered by as many as 11 patents, BlackBerry said in a complaint filed in federal court in Wilmington, Delaware. The mobile network products and services are provided to companies including T-Mobile and AT&T for their LTE networks, BlackBerry said in the complaint. "Nokia has persisted in encouraging the use" of the standard- compliant products without a license from BlackBerry, it said.

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Re:Is this the internet?

[DickBreath]

> Apple took over the whole market.
> Now you dont see anyone with a phone that isnt made by Apple anymore.

You lost me right there. Alternate facts?

With trivial Googling, I came up with this. Now that is data from 2nd quarter 2016. But it was the first quick thing I found.

Market share for 2nd Q 2015: Android 82.2 %, iOS 14.6 %, Windows 2.5 %, Blackberry 0.3 %, others 0.4 %.
Market share for 2nd Q 2016: Android 86.2 %, iOS 12.9 %, Windows 0.6 %, Blackberry 0.1 %, others 0.2 %.

What that says is that from 2015 to 2016 only Android had any growth and everything else lost market share. I doubt that in the last year that trend has reversed. Less than a year ago, Android was a stone's throw from having 90 % of the market.

As for "now you don't see anyone with a phone that isn't made by Apple anymore", I would argue that you don't see a anyone with a phone that isn't Android anymore. Made by all non-Apple manufacturers. In every size, shape, color, style, feature set and price range that you can imagine. Not the extremely limited product line made by Apple. When I see someone get out a smart phone, it is inevitably Android, seldom Apple. And this is in the real world. On vacation. Traveling for work. In every day life. Dr's office. Library. Grocery store. Etc. I don't think I live in an "Android bubble". So if you really see such a large number of iPhone users, I wonder if you are in some kind of "Apple bubble" or if it is a genuine phenomena in some region where you live, or what?

As for companies engaging in litigation when they start to circle the drain, I agree completely.

In other news Apple will fight "right to repair" laws. This makes me like Apple even less. Not only would I not ever buy their overpriced products, but they are going to try to prevent me from being able to repair my non-Apple products.